PBdict doesn't work under UTF-8. I want to use UTF-8 to translate
the menu in Japanese. It seems that you are using ISO-8859-1.
I did a simple experiment. I converted "gui.tpl" and "main.pb" to
UTF-8 by using "iconv". The menu is still in English because I didn't
translate anything but the coding is UTF-8 now. When I execute
the program, it won't generate "finalgui" file.
Can you help? Thanks in advance.

Pressing enter after the searchword still eludes me. I attached a screen shot of a search for pbdict to show my folders. When I try your download of course it says the specified folder /usr/local/pbdict/ does not exist, shall I create it" etc. I've tried a number of variations unsuccessfully. Does this work in 3.01?

If I type pbdict into the console (before applying your upgrade) I get:
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# pbdict

Amazing! No fonts, icons or themes to worry about. But there's more. Try:

Code:

dict --h | more

Seems as though there's an awful lot of effort being put into simplifying something that's already quite simple - aka the complication of toast. Whatever happened to K.I.S.S.?_________________hangout: ##b0rked on irc.freenode.net
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First! Pbdict is not my code. This is puppybasic, so I guess it is MU who has combined these chars. I only fixed some minor gui-stuff.

Henry wrote:

Pressing enter after the searchword still eludes me. I attached a screen shot of a search for pbdict to show my folders. When I try your download of course it says the specified folder /usr/local/pbdict/ does not exist, shall I create it" etc. I've tried a number of variations unsuccessfully. Does this work in 3.01?

You guys who got english as your main language are sometimes much harder to understand than guys from somewhere-else-out-there.
Our english sucks, but are simple.......We are just don't good enough.

Dear Henry.
I have read this over and over, but still don't figure out what the problem is. What is not working? What is downloaded? What eludes you?

I will try to be very clear. In your opening post you wrote:
"- You can press enter after searchword to activate script."

This does not work for me, although you have written on a couple of occasions that it now should. That's why I wrote. The reason I originally suggested this gui change for Pbdict, Pfind, even PSI is simply user convenience, sometimes called "human factors" in design. When one has typed in a search term, it's preferable to simply continue to type the "enter" key (as in Google, e.g.) than to have to reach for the mouse to enter. I have noted before that this is a small, but annoying thing to the typical user, e.g. a writer like me, who uses it a lot, but certainly in the gui, not the cli.

The reason I included the screen shot and the console output was to possibly help in determining why it doesn't work in my Puppy.

Pdict is a wonderful facility, wherever it came from (as apparently Alienjeff agrees ;-) But I understood this modification came from you.

I prefer "dict" to "PBdict." As a matter of fact, I can't remember the last time I used PBdict, though it must be well over a year ago.

I've got my F4 key assigned to open a console*, so when I need a definition, I hit F4 and type: dict word <enter>. No mouse manipulation or cursor aiming/placement. I can leave my hands on the keyboard where the work gets done. My point is that with PBdict, I have to type the word in anyways, so why needlessly bother with mouse shenanigans and just cut to the chase?

The mouse-GUI thing could be taken to the extreme here with a radio button for each letter of the alphabet. That way we could cater to hunt-and-peckers who refuse to learn touch typing. And think of the boon that would ultimately be down the road for surgeons specializing in carpal tunnel syndrome!

Guess I forgot to tag </sarcasm> to the end of my previous post - or for the emoticon-addicted,

* F4 console key binding from ~/.jwm/jwmrc-personal:

Code:

<Key key="F4">exec:rxvt</Key> <!-- start rxvt console -->

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I made those changes in Puppy 2.17, and it runs gtk 2.8. The new Puppy 3 has upgraded to gtk 2.10, and I guess that is the reason why it doesn't work correct here. I haven't got the time to investigate this issue more. Unfortunatly, there have been some gtkdialog-issues with Puppy 3.

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